Installing Gentoo install-amd64-minimal on Vmware Workstation 8. I'm attempting to configure bridged eth0 with DHCP. I can ping google by IP address, however hostnames are not resolving to an ip. Did I miss a step or am I missing a vital concept?

Well I got it working however not the way I had expected to. I was able to get a dynamically assigned IP address but not a dynamically assigned nameserver. I'm still perplexed as to why 'net-setup eth0' was only able to configure this partially...

Note: I'm using a router configured with TomatoUSB.

The following does not work:
dhcpcd eth0 (to configure nic for DHCP)
nano (to use as an editor)

The following steps do work:
1) net-setup eth0
2) vi /etc/resolv.conf, (this is where the system lists it's DNS servers)

The following does not work:
dhcpcd eth0 (to configure nic for DHCP)
nano (to use as an editor)

As for the nano editor and other issues:
amd64-minimal appears to have many issues, you may not want to use this version if you're a linux n00b like my self. Is it still recommended to use the SystemRescueCD?